I hate Ubuntu >:(
Linux is All About Choice

Linux is All About Choice

Tangerine music sharing only works intermittently.  Apparently if it can’t handle 1 song, it shuts down completely?  >:[

And half the songs have the wrong name transmitted over the network.

With Compiz enabled, the “Show Desktop” button doesn’t actually show the desktop.  The first click opens some windows in front of what you’re doing, and then the second click shows the desktop.

The normal Gnome desktop button, while identical in appearance, behaves as you would expect.

You realise your screenshots are symptomatic of hardware-level failure, right? That looks like an overheating graphics chip ya got there. Now, it's possible the drivers on linux could still be responsible (not scaling back the clock speed when your laptop gets too hot, say), but most likely windows would be just as fucked on that system.
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Sorry, but nope, the hardware’s fine.  It was a dual-boot before the hard drive died and it’s always worked fine in Windows.  The bizarre video fuck-ups only occur when I run Ubuntu and then try to suspend/resume.  It’s been like this since I first installed it years ago.  It’s kinda pretty, but not what you want to see when you go to use your computer and realize your work will be lost when you force a reboot.  RSEIUB.  Of course suspend/resume works on some computers running Ubuntu, but it doesn’t work on mine.  People who claim that Linux works with all kinds of hardware are being intellectually dishonest, like cult members lying to themselves about unfulfilled prophecies to quell their cognitive dissonance.

Linux fanatics love to whine about how it’s the video card manufacturer’s fault or the laptop manufacturer’s fault or Microsoft’s fault or Intel’s fault or anyone, anything except Linux: No one cares.  If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work.

There’s a lot more where this came from

There’s a lot more where this came from

One thing that Linux does much better than Windows: Fuck up.
It’s so much more creative than those boring old blue screens of death.

One thing that Linux does much better than Windows: Fuck up. 

It’s so much more creative than those boring old blue screens of death.

This is what happens when I try to wake the computer from sleep.

This is what happens when I try to wake the computer from sleep.

I don’t know.

I don’t know.

I have never seen such spectacular failures in Windows or OS X.

I have never seen such spectacular failures in Windows or OS X.